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Using LLMs for code archaeology is pretty fun. I stumbled across this blog entry from 2003 today, in which I had gotten briefly excited about ColdFusion and implemented an experimental PHP template engine that used XML tags to achieve a similar effect: <h1>%title%</...

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres PlanetScale formed in 2018 to build a commercial offering on top of the Vitess MySQL sharding open source project, which originated at YouTube. The founders were the co-creators and maintainers of Vitess. Today they're announcing a private...

To misuse a woodworking metaphor, I think we’re experiencing a shift from hand tools to power tools.

You still need someone who understands the basics to get the good results out of the tools, but they’re not chiseling fine furniture by hand anymore, they’re throwing heaps of wood through the tablesaw instead. More productive, but more likely to lose a finger if you’re not careful.

— mrmincent, Hacker News comment on Claude Code

Tags: ai-assisted-programming, claude-code, hacker-news, generative-ai, ai, llms

Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.

Today's links How much (little) are the AI companies making?: Ed Zitron does the math. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wil Wheaton on /., G20 Toronto; London's war on photograhy, debating C-11 on Twitter with James Moore, breaking up Google, Female...

Using Claude Code to build a GitHub Actions workflow

I wanted to add a small feature to one of my GitHub repos - an automatically updated README index listing other files in the repo - so I decided to use Descript to record my process using Claude Code. Here's a 7 minute video showing what I did.

I've been wanting to start producing more video content for a while - this felt like a good low-stakes opportunity to put in some reps.

Tags: screencast, youtube, ai, github-actions, llms, ai-assisted-programming, anthropic, claude, coding-agents, claude-code

I just sent out the second edition of my sponsors only monthly newsletter. Anyone who sponsors me for $10/month or more on GitHub gets this carefully hand-curated summary of the last month in AI/LLMs/my projects designed to be readable in ten minutes or less.

My regular newsletter remains free - the monthly one is the only paywalled content I produce, the idea being that you can pay me to send you less.

Here's the first edition for May 2025 as a preview of what you can expect. You'll get access to the June digest and the full archive automatically if you decide to start sponsoring.

Tags: newsletter

microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement p...

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate's most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren't doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.

llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow - a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted a missing LLVM compiler optimization while hacking on it, with the assistance of Claude (Alex works for ...

Don’t try this in your data science interviews.

math or intuition?

A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the...

Development containers are cool and I want to see if they work out in practice.

Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents Armin Ronacher delivers a 37 minute YouTube talk describing his adventures so far with Claude Code and agentic coding methods. A friend called Claude Code catnip for programmers and it really feels like this. I ...

how hard is it to save and restore program state?

CFP open now!

I’m thrilled to, once again, be helping run two of my favourite conferences in the world: /dev/world and X World! Both are returning to Melbourne, hosted at the fantastic Seek HQ, and the CFP is open now.

X World runs 2-3 September 2025 and /dev/world runs 4-5 September 2025.

X World is for those who champion Apple platform users. It covers essential areas like user education, system administration, effective platform deployments, smart device management, and more.

How to Fix Your Context Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other er...

Tip: Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses

Useful tip from Christian Hammond: if you create a Python dataclass using @dataclass(kw_only=True) its constructor will require keyword arguments, making it easier to add additional properties in the future, including in subclasses, without risking breaking existing code.

Via @chipx86.bsky.social

Tags: python